No Hard Drive is perfect, they ap have problems. And peoples opinions
are based mostly on their Experiences. If one had a problem with Maxtors
they are forever after Crap. And of course you have the Operating
conditions to concider in the different parts of the worls. Weather,
Electrical line stability etc..
 I myself have had VERY good luck with Maxtor. Although I have also has
good luck with Western Digital and Seagate. 
The IBM's had a prolbem with one series that gave them a Black Eye.
Peritcualrly they tried to Deny the prolbem for a long time before doing
anythign about it. They since have sold their Entire Hard Drive line to
a Japanese company.  Perhaps Hitachi?? I cannot recall.



-> Here is some interesting question i've got: Why in different regions of the
-> world different hard drives manufacturers are percieved totally different? for
-> example:

-> Some people in the US say that fujitsu drives are good and maxtor are bad,
-> while in israel fujitsu are considered total crap and maxtor are one of the
-> best hd brands. Or for example Seagate - in russia they are considered one of
-> the most long-living drives while i had something like 6 of those crashing on
-> me, mostly while they are still on guarantee period (ie 1-2 years since they
-> were purchased).

-> I also heard many people from the US say they like IBM drives. But both in
-> Israel and in Russia there are considered crap.

-> Anyway why do those differences occur? Maybe it's the climate or something? Or
-> the drives sold here are not quite the same drives sold elsewhere? Anyway, this
-> looks odd...

-> Best Regards, Viktor (aka BlackDew)

-> --- np: Wizard - The First One
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